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Histories of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Histories of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in
modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous
debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even
those who have dedicated their professional lives to understanding
the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all.
There is, then, an urgent need to synthesize and evaluate the
complex historiography on the Holocaust, exploring the major themes
and debates relating to it and drawing widely on the findings of a
great deal of research. Concentrating on the work of the last two
decades, Histories of the Holocaust examines the "Final Solution"
as a European project, the decision-making process, perpetrator
research, plunder and collaboration, regional studies, ghettos,
camps, race science, antisemitic ideology, and recent debates
concerning modernity, organization theory, colonialism, genocide
studies, and cultural history. Research on victims is discussed,
but Stone focuses more closely on perpetrators, reflecting trends
within the historiography, as well as his own view that in order to
understand Nazi genocide the emphasis must be on the culture of the
perpetrators.
The book is not a "history of the history of the Holocaust,"
offering simply a description of developments in historiography.
Stone critically analyses the literature, discerning major themes
and trends and assessing the achievements and shortcomings of the
various approaches. He demonstrates that there never can or should
be a single history of the Holocaust and facilitates an
understanding of the genocide of the Jews from a multiplicity of
angles. An understanding of how the Holocaust could have happened
can only be achieved by recourse to histories of the Holocaust:
detailed day-by-day accounts of high-level decision-making;
long-term narratives of the Holocaust's relationship to European
histories of colonialism and warfare; micro-historical studies of
Jewish life before, during, and after Nazi occupation; and cultural
analyses of Nazi fantasies and fears.
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